[5] Facing poverty, he worked many jobs to survive, including retail sales, being an elementary school teacher, a graphic designer, and more.
Taking inspiration form Antonin Artaud (among other theorists), Khouri decided to explore writing within the documentary theatre genre.
Khouri stated, "That’s what happened to the tuna, they loved it so much that they’ve killed it.”[13] A piece of documentary theatre containing true stories of violence and abuse, as well as humor.
Randa, an Algerian trans woman who lives in Sweden, is forced to leave her homeland in order to stay alive due to the death threats received for her activism on LGBTQ rights.
Omar, an old gay Jordanian male who lives in Amman, suffers from both body and gender dysphoria, recalling the emotional and physical abuse he endured at a young age by his family.
Khouri takes his audience around the world, combining his findings from his three-year long study of the Greek god of theatre, Dionysus.
It has been described as a show that ends up redefining what theatre could be, leaving the audience with newfound knowledge, stating it to be “better than a lecture in university in every single way"[16] and that it “makes an extraordinary ground-breaking discovery.”[17]